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Posted by: evil
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Mar,08.2009-17:27
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The best games machine, factory A1200 or factory Falcon?
1. 2D-scrolling games with sprites and especially parallax-scrolling.
Winner by theory: The A1200 without a doubt. It has hardware for sprites, hardware for more sprites (bobs) via the blitter, hardware for parallax scrolling (independent scrolling for each bitplane) and hardware for screen/palette splits. On the Falcon you need the CPU to do all this job for you. Falcon does have a blitter, but it can't work in parallell to the CPU as on the Amiga, and does the job slower than the CPU.
Winner by practise: The A1200 with an ever bigger margin. There are close to zero of these games on the Falcon while there are myriads on the A1200.
2. 3D-games
Winner by theory: The Falcon, especially with gradient shaded or texturemapped polygons. By theory the Falcon can calculate 3D alot faster with it's DSP and the 16bit graphics mode is just superior for non-flat polygons.
Winner by practise: The Falcon even if the score is closer here than the 2D category. The plain A1200 got squeezed quite hard with games such as Gloom. But looking at Crown Of Creation and Running on the Falcon, they are probably impossible on the A1200.
3. Strategy games
Winner by theory: I'd say a tie, the A1200/68020 processor and the Falcon/68030 are very close performance wise. The video resolutions are similar (256 colour highres). The Falcon have more memory and the option of hicolour, so there's a little advantage there, but nothing that really stands out.
Winner by practise: The A1200. It have more games plain and simple.
I usually don't comment on these computer-war threads, but I had nothing better to do ;)
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Anders Eriksson
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